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Little River, TX | I just so happen to use a pull type NH balewagon,
You can pull one at 20 even 25 mph but it is the stopping that is the problem.
I have up to one (1) mile haul, that is half mile on the field and half mile on farm lanes.
The advantage is I can pick up the driest hay first and stack it the deepest into the barn. I am also a one man operation. It is also easy to inventory your hay. The older machines have 55 bales per stack. There is an intermediate machine that has 83 bales per stack. Then there is the final option with 104 bales per stack. The self propelled will haul 145 bales. Some models will stack free standing blocks of hay, designed to be taken out of the barn using a grab or a squeeze.
Other than that,
It takes me twice as long to put the hay in the barn as it took me to bale. (rule of thumb)
The bale absolutely must be firm and uniform. For a 55 lb bale I use 34" length to accomplish the desired firmness.
These pull type bale wagons must have a good support to lean against. This changes the way you take hay out of the barn. As much as possible you want to pull the hay from the barn from the front to the back straight up and down. If someone loads up by taking the entire top two tiers you just lost that area to store hay, unless you go back to hand stacking.
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I need to automate my bale handling
